“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. Our American heirs may find it incredible, as most foreigners… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers, by and large, which accounts for their being in a profession which encourages them to stay at their… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950's, he was employed for Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported back to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that jumped over a fence and tried to run away.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined. Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell—keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty-three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for six seconds,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it. Oh, there have been lots of brilliant guesses. But honest, educated people have to identify with them as such--as guesses. What are guesses worth? Scientifically and legally, they are not worth doodley-squat. As the saying goes:… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
